[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any plan for security supported release

2012-07-02 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been waiting for the last year or two to replace my Solaris 10 machines with OpenIndiana, but I need a security supported release. I was convinced that we would have such a release in late 2011, but we are mid-2012 and still waiting :-). Any p

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Open Indiana
Hi, I need some NAS in our network (effectively 4TB) and already received a quote from DELL for a R320 with a Perc H310. This seems to be a branded LSI LSISAS2008 but it needs modification before I can use it with OpenIndiana. Has anyone some suggestions (apart from do not use Dell) on the best c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating root zpool from old disks to new one. only one system available

2012-07-02 Thread Open Indiana
Where did you get the "modified BIOS" you mention? -Original Message- From: J. V. [mailto:pepeshopp...@gmail.com] Sent: dinsdag 12 juni 2012 15:03 To: Jim Klimov Cc: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating root zpool from old disks to new one. only on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Creamer
You might give Silicon Mechanics a call. Their engineers are excellent for helping design a server that works with Solaris and derivatives. www.siliconmechanics.com (no financial interest, just a happy customer) Mark On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Open Indiana wrote: > Hi, > > I need some NAS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating root zpool from old disks to new one. only one system available

2012-07-02 Thread J. V.
Modified BIOS for HP Microserver (full speed internal sata + esata): http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3397- modified-bios-for-microserver-n40l-enables-hidden-features/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 03:21 PM, Open Indiana wrote: > Hi, > > I need some NAS in our network (effectively 4TB) and already received a > quote from DELL for a R320 with a Perc H310. > This seems to be a branded LSI LSISAS2008 but it needs modification before I > can use it with OpenIndiana. > > Has anyone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Lucas Van Tol
Some of the sg_ses and sg_vpd tools from the sg3_utils package can sort of give that information if you have an SES compatible backplane/expander. It stops working when disks die though; so you would want to record any mappings somewhere for later reference. (Or just look for the blank spot in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
diskmap.py is a publicly available script written by someone else whose name escapes me ATM which is useful for this. I also have my own scripts which aren't in any state for anyone else to look at ATM which do similar things. - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Lucas Van Tol wrote: > > Some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 03:27 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: > You might give Silicon Mechanics a call. Their engineers are excellent for > helping design a server that works with Solaris and derivatives. > www.siliconmechanics.com > (no financial interest, just a happy customer) Looking at the pictures on their

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
What firmware reflashing are you thinking of? I don't expect a need to reflash the H310 unless you're going for the IT firmware... - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/02/2012 03:21 PM, Open Indiana wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need some NAS in our network (effectively

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while their hardware is generally good, their Solaris support is often times a story of extensi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 08:01 PM, Rich wrote: > What firmware reflashing are you thinking of? > > I don't expect a need to reflash the H310 unless you're going for the > IT firmware... The H310 isn't supported by Illumos, according to the following thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.illumos.devel/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
Is there a reason that just adding the PCI ID to mr_sas won't do anything sane? [I don't disagree re: IT FW + ZFS RAID versus hardware raid, just wondering.] - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/02/2012 08:01 PM, Rich wrote: >> What firmware reflashing are you thi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 08:32 PM, Rich wrote: > Is there a reason that just adding the PCI ID to mr_sas won't do anything > sane? > > [I don't disagree re: IT FW + ZFS RAID versus hardware raid, just wondering.] That *might* be all that's needed, but I'm not sure if it's really all that simple. Judging fr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Creamer
Silicon Mechanics On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who > ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the > offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while > their ha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 7/2/2012 1:45 PM, Rich wrote: diskmap.py is a publicly available script written by someone else whose name escapes me ATM which is useful for this. Rich, I got diskmap.py downloaded and tweaked to work on my system. Looks good so far. The rackables enclosure has 16 slots in a 4x4, numb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Lucas, thanks for the sg utils tip - I think I will go with the diskmap.py Rich suggested - it worked pretty much out of the box, so I needn't hack on anything else for now... ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
I mean, I'm perfectly capable of compiling my own mr_sas or doing an update_drv, the only reason I don't offer more concrete data is that I have no 12G Dell servers with an Hx10 around to play with. - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/02/2012 08:32 PM, Rich wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 09:08 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: > Silicon Mechanics > Do they ship to and offer support in the EU? Cheers, -- Saso ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships servers and If the internal HBA is removable (or can b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
You can. The twofold caveat is that the built-in HBA is on a tiny proprietary form factor PCIe riser, so you need to take up another PCIe slot instead of that for it, and apparently [I haven't personally tested this] Dell whitelists what cards can be in that riser? Plus, support for an entire sys

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Lucas Van Tol
I think the only reason to use mine would be if you didn't like/couldn't use sas2ircu for some reason (used by diskmap.py). I didn't have much luck turning on locator LED's on failed drives using sas2ircu; which is why I had used sg_ses and sg_vpd instead. -Lucas Van Tol > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 20

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
I've noticed you can't necessarily easily toggle drive LEDs using sas2ircu on non-expander enclosures. I can't tell if this is a trivially-fixable bug on its part or something else... I've been meaning to ask LSI about this anyway, and a useful working example [as your script provides] will do won

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 10:03 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of >> internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced >> to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
True enough. Honestly though, I've got a small number of disks, I just don't want to have to be bothered figuring out which drive is where if something is dying :) -Original Message- From: Lucas Van Tol [mailto:catsey...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 4:30 PM To: openindiana-di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: That's why I try and avoid servers like those from SuperMicro - since the box is designed to be generic, you get plenty of loose ends, overly long cables, missing wire guides, etc. Essentially, it's a The number of system vendors who are capable of satis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Lucas Van Tol
It's actually hex; not binary, I'm not sure why I typed that wrong. And I don't know how standard it is across devices, which is why I'm somewhat leery of spreading it around. I think it should work on SES devices that support page 0x2, which should be almost all SES devices. What I've used all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
Hm, we appear to have been discussing a different problem, which is fascinating. I have a number of devices which are in the Supermicro SC846A-R1200 chassis - which has no expanders, just 6 SFF-8087 ports on it, running into LSI 9201-16i controllers. Fascinatingly, attempting to issue a sas2ircu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Lucas Van Tol
Sorry; I don't think I can help with that. My systems had inband ses communications already working; sas2ircu just didn't do what I wanted on systems with inband ses. -Lucas Van Tol Rich wrote: Hm, we appear to have been discussing a different problem, which is fascinating. I have a numbe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
That's okay, smp_{read,write}_gpio and I are going on a grand adventure, and I'll get back to people when I have something useful to show for it. :) - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Lucas Van Tol wrote: > Sorry; I don't think I can help with that. My systems had inband ses > communicati

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Mosetick
I would like to add another recommendation for Silicon Mechanics. They are always happy to work with me when I mention that my new server must work well with OpenIndiana. I don't know if they will ship to the EU, but I don't see why they wouldn't. Bonus for me pers

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

2012-07-02 Thread Glenn Holmer
I'm trying to install OpenIndiana. I booted the oi151a Desktop DVD, but my Ethernet card (Intel 82579V) is not recognized. I found some information here: https://www.illumos.org/issues/832 but I just don't know enough Solaris to understand it. I entered this: update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,1503"'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Rich wrote: > Hm, we appear to have been discussing a different problem, which is > fascinating. > > I have a number of devices which are in the Supermicro SC846A-R1200 > chassis - which has no expanders, just 6 SFF-8087 ports on it, running > into LSI 9201-16i contro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Anil Jangity
I've been looking at them as well. I am looking specifically at their R309.v3 with the LSI 9211 HBA with SSD. Of course, this will all be with ZFS, so what's the recommended configuration with that? Since I am opting out of a battery backed HBA, will a decent pair of SSD for slog be good alterna

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
Drive locator LEDs on this particular model are driven via either SGPIO over the iPASS connectors or via dedicated ports on the backplane running to {motherboard, daughter card} - the former is the case here. The chassis locator, on the other hand, is almost certainly configured as you describe.